It's time to reclaim our health and well being. It's time for real foods...

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

"Real" Desserts

Yesterday while on the quest for organics we ran across some pies. April (dear daughter number 4) asked if we might buy one and I was seriously considering it...until DD started reading the labels...

It started as simply as deciding that the cheery pies which looked delicious were a definite no, as they were sugar free which meant they had artificial sweeteners in them. So I said, "how about the apple pie"? And it was half way into the basket when April said uh-oh, it has high fructose corn syrup and shortening...

Well that was that.

I suggested that we make our own pie. We would use real sugar and good fats.

You can read here about high fructose corn syrup and here and here about good fats.

What's great abut this is seeing how the desire for "real", healthy foods trickles down. April is 16 and now she too is reading labels and desiring to eat better.

And some of you might be saying that pie is not healthy. But I believe that everyone should have some treats in their lives. All things in moderation. And certainly a dessert made with real, fresh ingredients is much better for you than one full of bad fats, HFCS, and artificial colors, flavorings, and preservatives.

So we went home and hit the cookbooks and we will be making our own "real" pie.

My passion is food, real food. I believe that we as a society have gotten so far away from real foods that we wouldn't recognize them if we saw them. Slight exaggeration there, but maybe not for some people. Everything runs at such a fast pace in our world today. We're under the impression that we have no time to prepare good quality, healthy meals for our families. But I'm here to prove them wrong. It's just too important not to eat well. There's a reason that obesity, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes are affecting people like never before. Never before have there been so many fast food restaurants, so many prepackaged, overly processed foods, and so many large portions. It's time to stop the madness! Time to get back to basics. Time to reclaim our health and well being. It's time for real foods. So please follow me on this blog and let's do it together!